I have been leaning more and more towards Buddhism for a while now, but one thing I havn't been able to come across, or have missed.. Reading the "Buddhism FAQ" on this board, it says that the belief is that when you die that no soul, esscence, whatever you call it, 'escapes' your body, but the energies in us go into re-creating life. I'm a little confused. Does that mean that we have no souls, or that all conciousness is one seperated into many beings? Is the energy nothing but literally, energy? If it is, what is the mind, in Buddhist terms? Sorry if I havn't really explained the questions, but any answers would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Soul (self) is a conditioned response to sense-form contact. Mind exists in a continuous stream that consists of an unbroken succession of discrete cognitive events. These events being: Consciousness is a conditioned response to mental volition; mental volition is a conditioned response to perception; perception is a conditioned response to feelings; and, feelings are a conditioned response to forms. And that all six senses are associated with each one of these conditioned responses which gives rise to the idea of self or soul. HTML:
In my understanding, there is no soul that continues after death. There are no separate, independent beings. There is only consciousness in many different (apparent) forms. Energy takes on many (apparent) forms also, but energy is energy, which can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed. The mind, is that which discriminates. That which categorizes this into that, and that into this. It draws distinctions. The discriminating mind arises as Darrell outlined.
